Additional export permits requested for Lake Charles LNG

Lake Charles LNG project participants filed an application with the United States Department of Energy seeking permission to export approximately 121 Bcf/year additionally, from the terminal in Louisiana. 

According to the filing, Lake Charles Exports and Lake Charles LNG Export Company, both units of Energy Transfer, the company owning the Lake Charles regasification facility, are seeking to export the additional volumes to Free Trade Agreement countries for a period of 25 year and non-FTA countries for a 20 year period.

The additional volumes would align the liquefaction production capacity of the Lake Charles facility with the volumes authorized for export. Currently, the project is authorized to export up to 730 billion cubic feet of natural gas per year.

Shell, the company with a 100 percent capacity interest in the project, informed at the end of July that the final investment decision on the project has been delayed.

The construction works that include the construction of three liquefaction trains, each with a production capacity sufficient to produce 5.48 million metric tons per annum of LNG for export, are scheduled to start immediately after the FID.

Works on converting the existing Lake Charles regasification facility to a liquefaction facility would also include modifications and upgrades at the existing LNG terminal and about 0.5 mile of 48-inch-diameter feed gas line to supply natural gas to the liquefaction facility from existing gas transmission pipelines together with several other modifications and upgrades to existing facilities.

 

LNG World News Staff